Myers v. Estate of Alessi

How courts have described this case

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• patient who failed to make follow-up appointment with physician was not entitled to argue that doctor’s original failure to detect cancer was sufficient to establish fresh act of negligence
• “To determine propriety of denying a requested jury instruction, a reviewing court must examine whether the requested instruction was fairly covered by the instructions given, and whether the requested instruction is a correct statement of the law based on the evidence presented.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).